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Depicted lives : the role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation
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Newby, Zahra (2020) Depicted lives : the role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation. In: de Temmerman, Koen, (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography. Oxford handbooks online . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198703013
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the types of biographies which could be written through material objects, and the dynamic uses to which prominent figures could put the visual arts in their efforts at self-representation, using the Imperial Greek sophists as a case study. To what extent can one conceptualize these sorts of representation and self-representation as biography? From the perspective of the historian, physical monuments along with the texts inscribed upon them often allow one to write the life-histories of individuals who would otherwise remain unknown, omitted from the literary tradition. Yet the analogy also goes deeper. Monuments often work within the same sorts of categories and agenda which can also be seen in literary biographies. As with Favorinus’ statue, statues and their inscriptions could present individuals as exempla of particular sorts of values, designed to have a didactic function for their wider audience. The imagery chosen for portrait statues also situates these individuals within particular categories—as scholar, philosopher, or powerful civic notable.
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||||
| Series Name: | Oxford handbooks online | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||||||
| ISBN: | 9780198703013 | ||||||||
| Book Title: | Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography | ||||||||
| Editor: | de Temmerman, Koen | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2020 | ||||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 800 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198703013.013.40 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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